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Your activity: Mr. Chartwell is a fictional account of Winston Churchill. In the comment section below, let us know what public figure (politician, celebrity, musician, author, etc.) you would like to read a fictional account of. Who fascinates you enough to read a book about him or her?

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I often wonder why there aren’t any fictional accounts of William Faulkner’s life–he was a very interesting character. One of his former girlfriends did write a novel based on their affair, but I don’t think that really counts.

I’d like to read an account about our Prime Minister’s life. Stephen Harper is our PM in Canada -and I don’t much like him – but – he is so secretive that if I could learn more about him – fictional or not – I’d love to do so.

This is a hard question, since I have read a lot of biographies and now it is hard to go from there to a fictional account of people’s lives, but I would love to read more about Plato as a fictional character, since I really enjoyed Peter Akroyd’s Plato Papers, which I highly recommend 🙂

I’d love to read a fictional account of the relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. I’m sure there’s plenty of scope to make it highly amusing. In the meantime Churchill seems like a great subject 🙂

I started to respond with the Mitford sisters, but their biographies already read like fiction! Since it seems O.K. to choose dead personalities, I’d like so much to read a fictional account of the Romantic poets (Keats, Shelley, Byron), that I bought one:Passion by Jude Morgan.

I love this question! I think the suggestions above are all inspired, for me though I’m going for Florence Nightingale. I know next to nothing about her, even though I vaguely remember going to the FN museum once many years ago…
Haven’t heard of Mr Chartwell and am delighted to be introduced to it – will read it even if I don’t win it!

I agree this is a great question and hard to pick just one, however I am going to say Georgia O’Keefe. She was such an independent, creative woman that I think she would make a great fictional character! It would be fun to read about her inspiration for some of her paintings.